Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-29
NO. II.

Amanda's daughter, and so | wrote 10 her
and she was so excited that she sent me $40
a month herself and about the first Of
March she said gentleman was going to
help her help me, and she guessed I'd have
an easier time"
She paused little, put her hand up to
her head, and then with a look Of interest
said Are you that friend ! ought 10
have thought of it before, but don't think
as quick as | used TO-"
"You say you printed that piece y
rs il teachers that are giving me mon
eyp
She talked slowly, thinking her way
along. "And it all comes about at last be
cause helped Amanda TO get out Of the
mill and keep school"
"She got married, and her daughter
keeps school, and she asked you, and you
asked the teachers, and they want to help
a teacher that is eighty T.
you asked me how ! earned money.
There it is again. Two or three Chicago
teachers have had me make out their re
port cards, and have paid me for it, The
boys like my mittens and buy all | can
knit. If it didn't cost any more to live in
winter than in summer, and if boys want
ed mittens in the summer as well as in the
winter, / should have no trouble.
you say the boys told you where livei
Well, Miss D wrote that some one
thought | might 90 TO an Old Ladies' Home.
You may think it strange for a lady eighty
years old to say it, but l don't like to be
with old people / have always been with
children and that is what keeps me young.
All the children here know me, and think
| do them good If thought | could live
right here in these rooms, / should be hap
py."
assured her that she could that the
teachers Of America had interested them
selves in her, that her expenses were light,
and that she might stay there as long as
she was able to live alone. | then asked
her how she succeeded in finding a school
to keep" until she was seventy one years
old.
"Well, | did get too old to keep school in
Vermont, but there were country districts
in Florida, where they didn't have good
teaching, and when was sixty-three-ld did
not look so old-1began keeping school down
there, and they thought ! was a fine teach
err. | had three different schools in neg
lected districts, and organized three Sun
day schools where they never had any, and
they all grew. had to do it all. l had
to teach all the teachers how to teach the
lessons. l never believed in women speak
ing in meeting up in Vermont, but | had
to do all the speaking and praying. l had
such good schools that they let me keep the
last one till | was seventy-one. | think
did more good after | was sixty thsn | ever
did before.
"How did get down to Florida Well
that was because | went to Maryland and
kept school four years | had two sisters
that kept school in Maryland one eighteen
| years and one twenty years, but they died
a good while ago. Well, they had me come
there and keep school, and l always had
good friends, and they helped me to 90 to
| Florida where it wasn't easy to get any
/ body TO keep a good school
The next day | took to her home one of
the leading Chicago principals, and an en-
| thusiastic lady teacher, who will act as a
| local supervisory committee. We sent up
a good mattress, chairs and table and they
| will see to the curtains, table cover carpet
and whatever else will make her comforta-
bic i'll her home. The principal well said /;
She has developed the faculty of faith,
and now we will try to to aid the sight by
giving her tangible comforts
All honor to more than a thousand teach
ers whose many mites have made generous
provision possible for one of the loveliest
of aged ladies, who has been kept young
by keeping school, being with the children.
May Heaven add gracious blessings to her
remaining years